Artificial intelligence is changing how people work, learn, and create. Harvard Kennedy School can help you learn more about the opportunities AI brings as well as the challenges and concerns that it raises for policymakers and public leaders. Explore events, articles, courses, multimedia, faculty, and resources on AI.
Courses & Programs
Generative AI: How to Use it and Why it Matters is a flexible, six-week online program designed to demystify this transformative technology. Designed for leaders and learners across all sectors, you'll gain an intuitive understanding of how generative AI works with practical tools and frameworks on how to harness it to drive innovation in your work.
Leadership in Emerging Technology: Security, Strategy & Risk is a groundbreaking Executive Education program designed to equip leaders with the technical, strategic, and policy foundations necessary to navigate critical emerging technologies.
The Leading in Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Technology and Policy Executive Education program sits at the vital nexus of technology and policy, offering frameworks and strategies to navigate emerging challenges.
AI in Action is a comprehensive, flexible and online executive education program that provides the insights and tools you'll need to understand and utilize AI in all its forms. Join us to examine the benefits and risks of AI, explore real-world successes and failures, and acquire a personalized roadmap and pilot plan to become a leader for AI-driven transformation in your organization.
Executive Certificates
The Technology and Public Leadership Executive Certificate at Harvard Kennedy School sets you on an accelerated path to the next level as a leader in your organization. Designed for professionals across sectors, this executive certificate builds a shared understanding of how policy and technology influence one another—and how to lead where they intersect.
Technology and Public Leadership Executive Certificate →
Featured Student Story
Several students explored how AI is reshaping economies & communities globally. →
HKS Faculty on AI
The following HKS faculty members have considered aspects of artificial intelligence in their teaching and research—from looking at the ways AI can help and harm democracy to understanding its use in health care to analyzing implications for the workforce and more.
Our faculty have also authored publications related to AI.
David Deming
Academic Dean; Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy
Mark Fagan
Lecturer in Public Policy
Sharad Goel
Professor of Public Policy
Building an AI Slackbot to tutor students
Deborah Hughes Hallett
Adjunct Professor of Public Policy
Sheila Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Dan Levy
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Understanding student learning in class
Kathy Pham
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Hong Qu
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Mathias Risse
Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy
Todd Rogers
Weatherhead Professor of Public Policy
Teaching effective written communication skills with AI
Eric Rosenbach
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Soroush Saghafian
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Bruce Schneier
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Lawrence Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Teddy Svoronos
Lecturer in Public Policy
Using AI to create unlimited practice problems
Latanya Sweeney
Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology
Jim Waldo
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor of Public Policy
Events
Join us for events at the intersection of AI and public policy.